Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds is a survival, open world survival craft and multiplayer game developed by Merge Games and published by Merge Games and Maximum Entertainment.
Released on February 15th 2024 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 8,235 reviews of which 6,831 were positive and 1,404 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 8.95€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Smalland: Survive the Wilds into these genres:

Survival Open World Survival Craft Multiplayer Base-Building Online Co-Op Open World Building Crafting Co-op Exploration Singleplayer Sandbox Adventure RPG Character Customization Action-Adventure Third Person First-Person City Builder Action

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 SP1
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400 CPU @ 2.90GHz or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or equivalent
DirectX: Version 12
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 20 GB available space
Additional Notes: Connecting to Epic EOS is required for online multiplayer

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Nov. 2024

Got it on sale for $14.00, can't recommend enough to wait for a sale. The game mechanics are good, REAL good. The concepts in the game are awesome and make it addictive. Crafting is decent, building is very good and allows for impressive structures. The story is...not there. It's not that it's a BAD story...it's just not a story at all. There's a Queen that needs rescuing......that you'll never see. There's no voice acting in the game, the cut scenes are R E A L L Y bad, quest progression is borked and you're just guessing most of the time on where to go. You NEED youtube, reddit, and google to figure out how to finish quests in the game and where to go to accomplish your quests. At the end of the game, I realized that this is half-baked and should still be in early access. It's not bad for $14.00 though!

Oct. 2024

I wanna preface this by saying that this game is 2 very different experiences, depending on if you are playing the first area, which I refer to as the Main Story, or the postgame area. The Main story is beautifully crafted and a ton of fun to explore, bugs are challenging but fair and taming insects to use them is a ton of fun, especially once you unlock the Hornet which is a blast to fly around It's essentially everything I wanted Grounded to be The Postgame area tho, the desert is one of the worst experiences I've had in a while. The powerspike is ridiculous, where bugs before had like 200 HP on average, desert bugs most often have around 2.000 or more, so about 10x more. The turrets that are plastered absolutely everywhere and just shoot at will make exploring it really unpleasant and you'll find all your main story bugs dead within one or two fights. I also found that the attention to detail has clearly taken a hit, the desert is fairly baren with very little points of interest and the hitboxes of some late game enemies are extremely janky. The fact that these bugs are incredibly hard to tame doesn't help either, as you pretty much need them to stand any chance. Another annoyance is the lack of mounts in this area, the only mountable late game bug (not counting the bird) is the scorpion, which really makes no sense to me since the Tarrantula hawk wasp is basically just a recolored Hornet, which are rideable, yet the Hawk wasp is not, make it make sense Overall I still think it's a good game, just the content after the King Stag Beetle is designed very poorly and carelessly and is best skipped imo

Aug. 2024

Finished the game from start to finish. Oh man what a game! Everything about it is captivating, you can play for hours without getting bored. Though I have no friends, this game was just as fun to play solo. I highly encourage anyone looking for a new building survival game, to download this asap!

July 2024

Ok, first off is this game better than Grounded? Personally I feel it's an unfair comparison to both games. Grounded is a more RPG focused game that has survival elements, and Smallland is more of a survival game that has RPG elements. So if you go into either game expecting the same experience, you won't get it. That said, Grounded is fully cooked, and Smalland even though it's v1.0 is still baking a bit. Smallland is basically taking place after the fall of humans, and the plot is pretty lite. There is very little hand-holding, though there are owl statues that will explain mechanics if you want. You are playing an explorer of your people, and for some reason the intro was changed in a way that instead of being guided out the door you literally are thrown into the wilds with no equipment, weapons, or clue. Which depends on the person if that works or not. Changes like that are kinda what the devs seem to be doing for more "realism". This is where I talk about the "still baking". Overall the game does feel good and engaging to play. But some things feel like they are still under development. For example there are events where you can drop in and kill random groups of insects for faction rewards and faster XP gains. Faction rewards can be passives like slower hunger drain or more pet health, unique armor, and base decorations. However these events only give you 6 points each and you need 1000 to reach tier 1 with a faction. The community has been very vocal about changing it, so maybe in the next expansion it will be. There are similar issues with fuel/timers to crafting, pet management, how some things can craft from chests but others can't, and so forth. Which is the next thing. The game world is still growing. The next update (as of July 2024) is supposed to be adding a "treetop" biome. The last one added a kind of desert biome. More weapons, creatures you can tame to support you, more areas, and game play changes are supposed to be coming out this year for free. So some of this stuff can change. Taming for example was made more friendly and accessible than how it was at launch, and there are already more options than what we had at launch. Overall I would say the game is worth a buy, especially if it's on a sale, if you like survival games. It does have it's flaws, but it's very easy to get you money's worth out of the game. The game world really feels epic in that small person way, and as you unlock ways to travel more easily around the world either by gliding or by riding pets you really come to appreciate the scale. Even with the flaws, and the game does have them, the experience is something not many games really capture and made the journey fun it itself.

June 2024

Really good game, I am in 500 hrs and having a blast. With one major exception, The Hand Cannon. The grind to make ammo is F'ING stupid. Here is a break down to get one shot. 5 - sulphur makes 1 refined sulphur 1 - salt peter makes 1 refined salt peter 4 - refined salt peter, 1 refined sulphur makes 1 fire sand. 5 - iron shards make one iron ingot 5 - iron ingots, 10 fire sand makes one shot. I am not going to touch on fuels needs because it depends on the fuel source you use. But suffice it to say it is a really large amount of fuel needed to make one shot. It simply is not worth the time to use a pointless weapon when one shot can cost you and enormous amount of in game time to accomplish nothing. I put my gun in a box and that is where it sits and will sit.

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